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BESC chapter 7 Test Questions and Answers All Correct Why is Russia's population declining? - Answer-The standard of living has decreased leading to higher death rates and lower birth rates Most of the world's human settlements are clustered - Answer-along coastlines and rivers Crude birt...

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BESC chapter 7 Test Questions
and Answers All Correct

Why is Russia's population declining? - Answer-The standard of living has decreased
leading to higher death rates and lower birth rates

Most of the world's human settlements are clustered - Answer-along coastlines and
rivers

Crude birth rates are measured in terms of the number of children born - Answer-per
1000 people each year

The total fertility rate for upper class women in 17th and 18th century europe was
sometimes - Answer-greater than 20

the zero population growth rate is slightly over two children per couple because -
Answer-some children die and some couples do not have children

according to the graph, which region had the highest total fertility rate in 1998? -
Answer-Africa

ATTG, which region had the highest total fertility rate in 1950? - Answer-Eastern
Mediterranian

ATTG, which region has the greatest fertility reduction? - Answer-South-east asia

The total fertility rate is the number of children born - Answer-to the average women
during her lifetime

there is some evidence that population growth today is ___ rather than ____ - Answer-
slowing slightly; continuing to accelerate

demographers usually measure mortality in terms of - Answer-deaths per 1000 persons
per year

which of the following factors does not usually affect the drupe death rates of a
population? - Answer-all of these (health care, sanitation, age structure, nutrition)

The main cause of world population growth in the past 300 years has been - Answer-
falling mortality

, the difference between "total growth rate" and "natural increase" is the total growth rates
- Answer-include immigration and emigration as well as births and deaths



Historiclly, up until the middle ages, populations were mostly limited by - Answer-
Disease, famine and war

_____ are the most numerous vertebrate organisms on Earth. - Answer-Humans

historical evidence shows that plagues and disease - Answer-cause only minor or
temporary setbacks in population growth trends

human population growth most closely resembles - Answer-J-shaped growth curve

the world human population reached 1 billion in about ____ and passed ____ in 1999 -
Answer-1800; 6 billion

The population theory held by Thomas Malthus was that the human population would -
Answer-outstrip its resources, then suffer starvation and misery

Neo-Malthusians argue that - Answer-Malthus's 18th century theories apply to similar
circumstances today

Disastrous famines in the past 200 years - Answer-have mostly resulted from politics
and economics rather than from overpopulation

Malthus argued that ___ is the ultimate cause of social and environmental problems and
Marx argued that population growth ___ social and environmental problems. - Answer-
Excess population growth; results from

Technological optimists argue that technological advances have - Answer-proved
malthus wrong in his predictions of famine and disaster

Malthus and Marx - Answer-disagreed about the root causes of overpopulation, poverty
and social up heal

Human ingenuity and intelligence as the "ultimate resource" is the central theme in the
argument of - Answer-Julian Simon

Demography is the science that describes - Answer-population changes and
characteristics

Ninety percent of the world's population growth in the next century is expected to occur
in - Answer-Less-developed countries

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